Cannot boot Debian on HP probook 4540s USB

abcde597 · 05-10-2013, 05:38 AM

Hi guys. Still frustrated with this laptop.
I'm starting to think it's either the laptop or my drive.
Anyways, yeah. I receive an out of disk error from Grub2. I installed Debian on my drive to test to see if it's the distro. Nope. Same error as I had with Ubuntu. I ran bootinfoscript on it on a Desktop that could boot with it, and attached is the resultant RESULTS.txt.

EDDY1 · 05-10-2013, 11:44 AM

You have to get debian with EFU support.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...0/#post4948345

abcde597 · 05-10-2013, 04:29 PM

I looked in the BIOS settings, and UEFI mode is not enabled; should I still reinstall Debian with UEFI support?

TobiSGD · 05-10-2013, 04:57 PM

You have no EFI boot-partition, so installing Debian with UEFI support will most likely not work unless you repartition the disk (including re-installing Windows with UEFI enabled).
Actually, despite the message that there is an unknown bootloader on the MBR of sdb there seems to be nothing wrong with your system, according to the bootinfo script.
Do you get any error-messages when you try to install Grub manually? Have you tried a different bootloader (Grub legacy or Lilo)?